House construction

In one of our rental units, 500 rs of electricity bill came this month. But the thing is, no one has stayed in the building for the past 20 days… Moreover, even if they stay, their electricity bill usually comes to 0 rs because the Karnataka government offers some free units. The student got suspicious, and we got to know something was wrong. When the student/tenant was informed regarding the electricity bill issue, we checked to see if the meter reader had taken the wrong reading....

Yesterday, while going through my email inbox, I came across an email with the subject line “Pain”. I remembered one incident in our first building when I saw the word pain. It happened when all the construction work was over, and we shifted from a rental property to a brand-new house. Usually, once the housewarming function is over, it’s recommended that someone stay in the brand-new house. That’s a kind of tradition we follow....

Today, my brother and I were going on my bike to bring estamp paper to make a rental agreement for our tenants. While going, I took the internal route so I could see new construction works. In my area, lots of construction work is going on… so anywhere I look, there is always some construction activity. Buildings are built and are sold like fast-moving food in a hotel. Anyway, while going, I saw a new house with plinth beam work going on....

When it’s time to choose wardrobe laminate design, our supplier bought a big laminate design book to choose from. At first, we chose a Glassy finish design. Before finalizing, I always ask the supplier’s opinion once… Supplier told, sir… Glassy is usually a little over for wardrobe. I personally don’t recommend a glassy finish like he informed me. Moreover, he also told one more thing. That is, both glassy and non-glassy laminate sheets cost the same....

The day before yesterday, my brother and I ordered a laptop battery for his laptop. We ordered from a nearby local shop as no proper battery was available on the Amazon site. Most don’t keep stock of the exact laptop battery model, so we need to book to get a product by paying in advance. We booked by paying a full advance of ₹3,000, and the battery was delivered the next day....

After having a good tea sitting under a 2-speed Atomberg BLDC fan in my Home office, I’m writing today’s email. Today, email about saving money on your online shopping. Who doesn’t want to save money on online shopping? everyone does… If you also do, then don’t buy anything online now. Wait a few more days. Amazon India and Flipkart will start the year’s greatest sales next month. You can expect a good discount if you shop on those shopping days....

From last month onwards, we had a strange network problem in our building (both). Because of this problem, most of our tenants and we could not connect to our WiFi router. Anytime we connect, it keeps on disconnecting. We never had an issue with a wired connection. This only happens on our sub-router, which we placed in our tenant’s house (in Access Point mode). In the main router, we never had any such issue....

Yesterday, I got the following question from one of my customers: Hi Arun, my house is a 20 year old constructed property. It’s a 2bhk independent house with 1200 sq. ft in ground floor. Do you think it wise to construct the 1st floor and terrace with a pent house now and give the ground floor for rent? I am going through all your materials and it’s really helpful. Regards, Dileep...

Right, in front of my home office window, one construction work is going on… Today, they are doing pillar concrete work. It looks like the owner or contractor asked labourers to do overnight work to finish all the concrete work on the pillars. The problem is, at 7.50PM, they are still doing concrete work. Now, a power failure has also happened here in my place. So they don’t have any alternative light arrangement or power to use a concrete vibrator to properly set concrete inside the pillar box....

Today my mom brother came to our house. While discussing, I generally speak about business stuff more… While speaking with them, I asked how their rental property was doing. They shared that our saree weaving business is down, so our tenants staying at our rental property are not paying rent. Most of their tenants are labourers of saree weaving, and when saree is not in demand, owners also stop power looms....